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... Group Connections Reviews Member Content Member Content - Content Package Categories Popular Recent All Back Sample: Agency Business Plan 10/26/2018 12:00:00 AM by CompleteMarkets Editor This content has not been rated yet. SAMPLE AGENCY BUSINESS PLAN Cannon Powell & Duggan Insurors (912) 888-2040 800- 628-2040 FIVE-YEAR STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLAN July 1, 1997 - June 30, 2002 CANNON, POWELL & DUGGAN INSURORS P.O. Box 71628 2301 Dawson Road Albany, Georgia 31707-0031 Fax (912) 435-3036 Over 40 Years of Protecting the Southeast MISSION Cannon, Powell & Duggan is a professional, innovative sales and service organization, developing and marketing superior insurance, travel, and related products. VISION We are dynamic and people-oriented, committed to the growth, prosperity, and enrichment of employees, clients, and community. TABLE OF CONTENTS Five Year Master Strategies Five Year Agency Objectives Five Year Functional Strategies Accounting/Financial Automation Human Resources Sales/Marketing Public Relations Service Five Year Departmental Strategies Commercial Lines Personal Lines Employee Benefits Travels FIVE YEAR MASTER STRATEGIES (July 1, 1997 - June 30, 2002) The overall strategies for this five-year period is to focus on the following: Total quality management Acquisition/merger Growth - internal and external Expanding products and services Educating the public FIVE YEAR AGENCY OBJECTIVES Profitability: 15% before taxes after all expenses Market Growth: 20% compounded annually (total revenue) Customer Service: Set the standard with the client. Have a goal and achievement it. Accomplish this so that service improves and new standards are continually set. Competitive Position: Set the standard and have as ...

... Group Connections Reviews Member Content Member Content - Content Package Categories Popular Recent All Back Sample: Agency Business Plan 10/26/2018 12:00:00 AM by CompleteMarkets Editor This content has not been rated yet. SAMPLE AGENCY BUSINESS PLAN Cannon Powell & Duggan Insurors (912) 888-2040 800- 628-2040 FIVE-YEAR STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLAN July 1, 1997 - June 30, 2002 CANNON, POWELL & DUGGAN INSURORS P.O. Box 71628 2301 Dawson Road Albany, Georgia 31707-0031 Fax (912) 435-3036 Over 40 Years of Protecting the Southeast MISSION Cannon, Powell & Duggan is a professional, innovative sales and service organization, developing and marketing superior insurance, travel, and related products. VISION We are dynamic and people-oriented, committed to the growth, prosperity, and enrichment of employees, clients, and community. TABLE OF CONTENTS Five Year Master Strategies Five Year Agency Objectives Five Year Functional Strategies Accounting/Financial Automation Human Resources Sales/Marketing Public Relations Service Five Year Departmental Strategies Commercial Lines Personal Lines Employee Benefits Travels FIVE YEAR MASTER STRATEGIES (July 1, 1997 - June 30, 2002) The overall strategies for this five-year period is to focus on the following: Total quality management Acquisition/merger Growth - internal and external Expanding products and services Educating the public FIVE YEAR AGENCY OBJECTIVES Profitability: 15% before taxes after all expenses Market Growth: 20% compounded annually (total revenue) Customer Service: Set the standard with the client. Have a goal and achievement it. Accomplish this so that service improves and new standards are continually set. Competitive Position: Set the standard and have as ...

... rented with a positive cash flow), three nearly-new vehicles, and two dogs. It's not hard to imagine the insurance they need to purchase every year. Today we're finding examples like this throughout North America. Budding minority entrepreneurs are opening small businesses, while education is opening corporate doors for many second- and third-generation minorities. In other cases, many foreign nationals sent here on corporate assignments for multinational firms are choosing to stay, and many wealthy citizens from Asia are migrating here and purchasing homes and businesses with hard cash. Despite all this, most agents' tunnel vision ignores minorities, often precluding any marketing efforts to gain their business. One Business Tackles The Market A friend of mine is the second-generation owner of a Chevrolet dealership. He watched his sales plummet as the demographics of his community became predominantly Asian. He had failed to learn the negotiation and buying habits of this minority, let alone figure out how to reach them with advertising. Daily he watched his white sales staff idle away the hours without a single customer. When an entire family (we're talking three generations) would arrive, usually with a translator, the sales staff would seldom close a sale. They did not know how to handle a group negotiation. Finally, before either selling the dealership or going bankrupt, he hired a new general manager who was experienced in trading in the Asian community. The new GM (who, by the way, was not Asian) began a multifaceted campaign that started with an analysis of the community. It turned out that there were about five or six dialects in ...

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... these questions, you're well on your way to developing agency-specific content. Agency-specific content is often found in an About Us or Who We Are section of your site. Other agency-specific content can be found in links shown by words such as contact us, e-mail, locations, and others. Agency-specific content also includes graphics, such as your logo, a photo of your building(s ) and location(s ), plus photos and/or biographical information about your staff. Keep in mind that the goal of agency-specific content is to personalize and humanize your agency. Your agency is more than a nondescript storefront or a series of cubicles in an office park; it's a business operated by people and has a personality, an image, a brand, a context, and a place within the community. Your Web site projects a visual and textual impression about your agency even if no one ever comes to your physical location. Here, then, is a short list of what to include. TELL YOUR AGENCY STORY Every business has a story to tell. People like stories. Stories engage the reader and draw them in. Sometimes an agency's story takes the form of a historical narrative, describing how the agency got started, its colorful founder, or a series of important events or milestones. One south Florida agency distinguished itself following the tragedy of Hurricane Andrew several years ago. Because many of the agency's employees also suffered devastation, the human interest element of the story was hard to ignore. Your agency's story is unique. Whatever took place in the past is what brought you to ...